The Fortuna City Council unanimously passed a hemp cultivation moratorium during a special meeting Friday morning. The ordinance was passed 4-0 with Councilmember Mike Johnson absent. The move in Fortuna follows closely on the heels of a similar vote at the county level.

The California Coastal Commission, which regulates all development along the state’s coast, holds meetings across the state. In August, those meetings will be held at the Wharfinger Building in Eureka, giving locals the opportunity to weigh in on contentious topics, including the Trinidad Rancheria tribe’s proposed hotel, proposed modifications to U.S.

The War on Drugs destroyed lives and left casualties in its wake in communities across the country. In September, the governor signed Senate Bill 1294 into law, creating state and local equity programs to ensure people who were negatively impacted by the War on Drugs are able to enter the cannabis industry as it becomes […]

California banks won’t do business with licensed cannabis businesses, but a few credit unions are stepping in. But cannabis is still largely an all-cash economy — which is inconvenient, inefficient and potentially perilous.

While tribes are free to grow and sell cannabis on their sovereign land now that recreational marijuana is legal in California, there’s no path in state law for Native Americans to join the regulated market.

Voters on Tuesday were deciding whether to make Denver the first U.S. city to decriminalize psilocybin — the psychoactive substance in “magic mushrooms” — and add a new chapter to the city’s role in shaping wider drug policy.

Nearly three years after California voters approved a cannabis legalization bill that promised, among other things, to clarify the issue of driving while high, researchers and law enforcement have few concrete answers about a potentially deadly problem.

The recreational market continues to increase its share of Colorado’s legal marijuana sales, with a new report showing that 66 percent of the total pounds of marijuana flowers and 86 percent of the total units of edibles sold in 2018 were for recreational use.

Drawn to Colorado by the lure of legal marijuana, Austin Jeffrey Boutain and his wife took a bus ride to Denver from Long Beach, Calif., before launching what police allege was a month-long, two-state crime spree that left a Golden man and a Utah college student dead, Golden police records said.

“Tasting” marijuana is legit Re: “Colorado will allow marijuana delivery and tasting rooms soon,” May 30 news story I’ve read and heard some opinions on marijuana tasting rooms, and I’ve been troubled by the misinformation and double standards compared with alcohol that I’ve encountered.

Its co-owners were sentenced to prison earlier this year and now the last vestiges of the once-vast Sweet Leaf marijuana dispensary network are being plastered over as a new chain takes over its final three locations.

Having announced his retirement last week after 11 NFL seasons, Chris Long is now even more free to speak his mind on the issues that perplex the league (though he never really was afraid of doing that during his playing days, either).

It’s become a predictable pattern in the era of legal recreational pot in Colorado. Every year, the state sets a new record for marijuana sales then, 12 months later, –poof — it goes up in smoke and a new record is set.

Colorado’s former-governor-turned-presidential-candidate John Hickenlooper gets his fair share of pot questions on the campaign trail these days. He sat down with The Denver Post on the eve of 4/20 to field a few more.

Potheads have for decades celebrated their love of marijuana on April 20, but the once counter-culture celebration that was all about getting stoned now is so mainstream Corporate America is starting to embrace it.